Ideas for filming location

I predominately want to denote the idea that the zombie infection within the game is not just affecting the protagonists, but in fact their entire surroundings. The involvement of derelict environments and silent high streets is as unfamiliar to anyone as it is harrowing.

The use of buildings with a dilapidated appearance will physically enhance the terror and abandonment the human race had to face during the destruction of their lives. Though the trailer will not portray interiors of these chilling locations, the outside enough will demonstrate a particular use for them within the game play structure.

In particular, I want to show the desolate environment of ideologically 'busy' high streets, they reinforce a traditional urban environment, but their lack of movement and commotion once again will portray the devastation left behind from the outbreak. The protagonists will play a huge amount of time in these locations within the game as this is where they meet pawn brokers in which players can purchase amenities and upgrade for their characters.

The empty and abandoned car parking garage is a particular favourite of mine. It will be featured in both the opening and the closing of the trailer as the characters go through a flash back. It symbolises their desperate struggle to escape the world they are now trapped it, and when they reach an area where they plot all their hopes within, to find it empty and still, it destroys their final morality. It opens up the main unit of the game, the fighting and murder of zombies, so it's very important. It also embodies the idea of claustrophobia as the heavy concrete walls seem to block out the sun and outside life.

Click here to see my brain storm for potential filming locations, and my interpretation of them according to the narrative of the video game.

All images taken from Google Images and are not my own photographs.